Political Science Questions

Q1. The German Ideology was written by
(a) Lenin
(b) Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels
(c) Karl Marx
(d) Friedrich Engels

Q2. Positive Liberty is advocated by
(a) J.S. Mill
(b) Isaiah Berlin
(c) Locke
(d) T.H. Green

Q3. In Marxist thought the concept of hegemony is associated with
(a) Gramsci
(b) Marx
(c) Mao
(d) Lenin

Q4. What is a negative liberty
(a) Freedom to choose
(b) Absence of external hindrances
(c) Absence of constraints of law
(d) Freedom to pursue one’s own good

Q5. Who wrote the book ‘Social Contract’
(a) Thomas Hobbes
(b) J.J. Rousseau
(c) John Locke
(d) J.S. Mill

Q6. Who was the author of the book ‘The Economic History of India’
(a) R.P. Dutt
(b) Romesh Chandra Dutt
(c) Dadabhai Nauroji
(d) Justice M.D. Ranade

Q7. ‘It is the people organised for law within a definite territory’ is State. Who said this
(a) Woodrow Wilson
(b) MacIver
(c) Laski
(d) Hall

Q8. The Marxian "withering away" of the state means that
(a) the state is abolished completely
(b) the state disappears all of a sudden
(c) the state disappears slowly
(d) none of the above

Q9. Who has described politics as "acting in concert"
(a) Aristotle
(b) Karl Marx
(c) Plato
(d) Hannah Arendt

Q10. The term "Historicism" was made popular by
(a) Sabine
(b) Foster
(c) Oakeshott
(d) Popper

Q11. Who is known as the father of Political Science
(a) Karl Marx
(b) Aristotle
(c) Austin
(d) Plato

Q12. Who called Political science as the Master Science
(a) Cicero
(b) Hobbes
(c) Aristotle
(d) Socrates

Q13. Who wrote the book "Republic"
(a) Bodin
(b) Locke
(c) Plato
(d) Cicero

Q14. The modern democracy is also known as
(a) Representative democracy
(b) Peoples democracy
(c) Limited democracy
(d) Direct democracy

Q15. Who defined democracy as "Government of the people, by the people, for the people"
(a) Mahatma Gandhi
(b) Abraham Lincoln
(c) Woodrow
(d) Harold Laski

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